The Daily News-Journal from Murfreesboro, Tennessee • 1

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'T; 3 More To Open Soon By DOUGLAS SPARKS Rutherford Countv wiH least three to open soon andonethathasbeen rooms and a restaurant. It is part of a iiveimotel chain rooms at Chattanpoga, another is tinder construction Jt Jackson. 18 1 r- nnon hut a feui rfavs The newest motel to open is the Scottish Inn on US 231 at 1-24. The local unit has 100 Scnooi Before Council Ma 1 kyr-lKSU QwneoBL-iconomy1-inns-wHn headquarters in Nashville in the Third National Bank building. Carlyle Jennings is President and Chairman of the Board of the holding company.

The company has another unit of 85 System consolidation of the Mur: freesboro and Rutherford County school systems at its regular meeting at 7:30 p.m. today at the City Hall. It will be presented by Roy L. Waldron, chairman of the Rutherford County School Board. IheLMmbers IJBe-boaxil are expected to attend the meet- mg, City Manager Clyde rite said.

"We should learn how much progress has been made toward the unification and just about whert it will become effective," he said. The Council will also consider recommendation from the Planning Commission to amend a section of the Build Promoted has been active in state-wirip hospital circles and was the raoinlant thd Tim.u Us By GEORGE PARRISH The City Council will hear a discussion of the Change In For Children The children from Rutherford County that go to Nashville on field trips, especially those who go to the state museum will no longer have to eat out of paper bags in the school bus. The whole dining plan has been changed and all because a bus -soon oeeemeine Dearuum of Central Tennessee At the present (JJme there are in the county eleven motels" and there are at riiuiiuiiai uie To Pay 20c Divident After doubling the earnings in 1971 over 1970, the directors of NationalSavings Life Insurance of Murfreesboro today announced a 20c per share cash dividend on all common stocks The TnhouncemenTas jnad by Kyle M. Hart, company president. The dividend will be paid to all stockholders of record on Feb.

25 and will be pavable March 1,1972. There 4500 stockholders (Continued on Page 9) Wilson In New Office County Road Supt. Bill Wilson Jias moved into a new office buiWlnydjacenTToTfieCouhty Highway Garage on the Shelby- ville Road. His office was formerly in Room 301 at the Courthouse. This space has been taken over by the Rutherford County Planning Commission.

IQHOQOOQBOGQOOa Deaths Mrs. Sallie Wynn Mrs. Florence Bridges Huggins Mr. Thomas Watson (See Obituariesbn Page 9) OOQOQQOOCBBGQO NlXT TO OPEN With eleven motels open and three more A to be. opened this year Wayside Inn will be opened sometimer in April ii Asks a I afia iwo-raore are-seneauieu for completion at Memphis and Knoxville.

The next motel scheduled to open here will be the Wayside Inn. It Is owned by Robert and Sam Lasseter and will have 85 rooms when It opens, In abouT'TwoTiionihs prooaBiy In April. Opening is being held up while they wait for a sewer. The motel will feature a Jerry's restaurant, one of the best "eating places of its kind. -i- It will have-seating for 150 diners and private dining facilities will be included also.

Ed Head will be the manager of the new unit. Also scheduled for construction "On US 231, will be a new Ramada Inn and a new7 Quality The Ramada Inn will be constructed on the left side of US 231 across from the fairgrounds and the Oualitv will hp constructed Df the off-ramD The biggest motel now open on 1-24 is Holiday Inn managed by David Hicks. Also open in the county, all located on the New Nashville highway are: Jackson motel, Murfreesboro motel, University Inn, Imperial 400, Anderson motel, Stones River motel, Chris-man motel, Crockett motel and the Fairlane at the Davidson county line. Two Unh Driver To Fe Judge Two brothers escaped injury Tuesday night when their auto- mobiles collided head aP Mt Hm(f nn Pad Main Street waS traveling west and Ewing east on Main Street. They said Ewing was charged wtn driving while intoxicated ana leaving ine scene oi an (Continued on Page 9) Office Ransacked Principal Carl Buckner's office was ramsacked at Bradley Middle School Wednesday night.

"Only $9 was taken from a cabinet," Lt. Henry Carlton said. He said entry was made breaking a glass in a window of the office. Also investigating was Lt. Robert Blanton.

Hughes Pof I fl I driver at Christiana School de- ing Code, cided he had had enough of his Planning Director William children sitting in the bus eat- Welch said the amendment in-ing In cold weather. volves the section covering only The bus driver took his one principa' building on any gripe to thecoumys Direct Jot Representative In. the General "The section now reads in Assembly, John Bragg, and Rep. residence districts. Only one (Continued on page 9) Continued on Bajgl 9) i sponsored redistrictlng bill pending in the state legislature is based on erroneous popula- tion figures.

In addition, the suit charges that "the proposed plan creates an unreasonablcadjustment of existing district lines, delib Hampfon Is KNOXVILLE James F. Hampton, assistant administrator of University of Tennessee Hospital here has been named associate administrator. The announcement was made by John H. King, administrator. Mr.

Hampton is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hampton of Walter Hill Community. Mr. Hampton, who joined the Hospital when it opened in 1956, erately attempts to change the were drawn by the federal which did not necessarily con-voting character of the district court in 1967 wnen tne General form to voting precincts, pf an incumbent congressman Assembly adjourned its ses- The suit cites examples from dilutes the voting pow- sion tnat vear without enacting Memphis and Shelby County of er of Shelby County by frag- a redistricting plan in line with districts where the number it al Association's Distinguished They are Dprris N.

Puckett, Service Award last Jail. He 24, and Ewing D. Puckett, 29, was instrumental in developing both of 103 Dill Lane, the Shared Hospital Accounting Sgt. Walter Gooch and Patrol-System (SHAS) which now man Fred Smith reported Dorris menting it into three districts." Plaintiffs in the suit, filed on oenaii oi itep. uan riuyken- RTenn-- are a Sroup of prominent Memphis Republicans, tl aim du uuier resiaeni cm- zens and qualified electors of the state of Tennessee similarly Situated.

Named as defendants are Gov. Winfield Dunn, Secretary of State Joe Carr, state Attor- ney General David M. Pack, state Election Coordinator Shirley G. Hassler and state Election Commissioners James E. Harpeter, Jack Seaton and Lytle Landess.

The redistricting bill pending in the legislature passed the House last year, but failed in the Senate by one vote. It is NASHVILLE A class action suit asking the U.S. District Court here to take over the task of carving Tennes-- see's nine congressional llllU Clgni as filed today. The suit, prepared by Memphis attorneys Lewis R. Donel-son III and Robert Walker, charges that a Democratic- Lin tt ISner lIUrr Is Treated Jessie T.

Fisher, 49, of Route 4, Murfreesboro, was slightly injured at 1 Ip.m. Wednesday when his truck struck a utility pole at Southeast Broad Street and South Maney Avenue. He was treated and released at Rutherford Hospital. Patrolman Jimmy Todd reported Fisher told him something happened, to his truck while he was making the turn into Maney Avenue from Broad Street. Still Boiling planned to publish next month and Life magazine was to serialize this month, has stated in an affidavit that he met Hughes in Irving's presence in a Palm Springs, motel room in 1971.

Hughes offered A -(Douglas Sparks Photo) rf bill. Those figures, according te the suit- were derjved by "interpolating" the population figures of the 1970 Census to the voting wards, precincts and districts. The census divided the- population into census tracts registered voters exceeds the projected population. "in Precinct 16-3 of County, for example, the suit says, "there are 1,326 regis-ered votes, but the interpolated population, is only 1,059, Similar examples of registered voters exceeding interpolated population may be found In several other wards, precinct and districts. "Also, in a number of wards, precincts and districts, the per-, (Continued on Page 9) 1 Contracts 2 On Printings Are Che eke NASHVILLE, Tenn.

(UPI) 4, District Attorney General, Thomas Shriver said day no determination has beenj made on whether state laws 4 violated in the awarding. dj. state printing contracts immg; cuaieiy prior to me uunn aK ministration. Shriver said his staff studying a report issued state Comptroller William Snodgrass which charged there' were, irregularities in the bid-letting procedures. Snodgrass said the bulk of state's printing business in 1969, and 1970 went to two Nashville printing firms, Rich and Hes-sey.

Also investigating the alleged irregularities is U.S. attorney Charles Hill Anderson Shriver said -state law does alle-i Anaerson -may "ve a bettei shot" at prosecution under fed eral anti-trust statutes. Fair, Cool Zones 8, 0, 10: Fair today and tonight becoming cloudy Friday. No Important temperature chanees throueh Frldrt. High today and Friday upper 40s.

Lows tonight mid to upper 20s. expected to be brought-back for another Senate vote week and is expected to pass, The bill changes KuykendalPs present "safe" Republican dis- trict t0" a Democratic strong- hold. "The present district "lines ttle v.i. Supreme Court "one man-one vote mandate. Kedistncting is now neces- sary again since Tennessee lost one congressman as.

a result oi tne 1970 Census which showed that the state had not gained in population as rapidly as other statps The bill pending in the legis-. lature would again violate the constitutional requirements, of equal representation, the suit charges. It js not possiDiei" the suit t0 prepare a redistrla. ing plan which meets the constitutional requirement of one man-one vote and reduces variations in population between districts to a minimum," using the figures in the legislative "fraud." Swiss authorities have issued arrest warrants for Irving and (Continued on Page 9) Huddfesfon Attends Meet FREEPORT, GRAND BAHAMA ISLAND George Huddle-ston of Huddleston Oil Murfreesboro, who distributes American Oil Company products in this area, is attending During the three-day confer- Dick Danielson, American Oil regional vice president, told the group that projected population increases in the South, along with other indications of economic growth, make expan- sion in this part of the country very much a part of American's overall strategy. U.S.

Attorneys Check Irvi ngs serves about 23 The system has been called "most successful of jits type in the nation" by IBM officials. 4. -(UPI Photo by Willie Vicoy) NEW YORK (UPI) -Government attorneys investigating Clifford living's purported of Howard Hughes today flew to Zurich, Switzerland, where the author's wife deposited and withdrew 8650,000 the publishers thought they were paying the billionaire. him an organic prune, Suskind said. Irving has stated he personally interviewed Hughes 100 times that year.

Hughes has denied ever meeting Irving, and has branded the book a by the Price Commission. He said there were "increasing loopholes in price regulation." The new predicted increase Grocery Prices May Climb Up To FourPcf. In 1972 The assistant U.S. attorneys, WASHINGTON (UP T) '-Robert T. Morvillo and his top GS pS may dimb to arnve in Zurich at 5:55 a.m.

Agricu1ture Department would suraass the 2 5 Per cent meeting Jield by his supplier J.aearv cover, the aue-fnTS in the Bahamas gations in the added riot clearly cover, the ma thP Price Commission. However, it ence more than 300 Amoco dis-was pointed out that raw tributors from the firm's ten-agricultural products are ex- Southern region will be empt from economic controls. show advertising and sales Retailers are under promotion plans for the coming 'i4 1 I aJts af.A rf Without disclosing the reason thUr! behind closed doors with Irving and his researcher Richard Suskind, the only other person to claim he saw the author and Hughes together. Suskind was the only one to comment on what transpired at the' meeting, and he limited himself to saying, "I've had a lovely afternoon." The bulky researcher, who Irving says helped him gather material for the "autobiogra- phy" which McGra Hill Mnlion, has been ineffective in dealing with food prices 5 The Agriculture Department's Economic Research Service earlier had estimated the grocery price Jump this year wouId from 2 t0 3 cent- Rep. William R.

Cotter, D- said he wanted a "full- scale investigation" of food prices by the Cost of Living Council. He contended there had been "ineffective policing" Phase II to pass along any 'added costs they incur. The Economic Research Service also estimated that farm income perhaps would hit $17.7 billion in 1972. This would be a record and would compare to $15.7 billion in 1971. The (Continued on Page 9) TAY BINH, S.

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